How to create amazon sandbox account for developer purpose?

Question

How to create amazon sandbox account for developer purpose using dummy credit card number. I searched lot in amazon website and Google but no information is available for developer. They ask for original credit card access.

Answer 1

UPDATE

As seen in the comments to this post, Amazon no longer provides a staging / test environment.

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How-to: Amazon Marketplace Web Services (MWS) Staging Account We’ve been working on custom web application that integrates our client’s platform with Amazon’s storefront. Trying to understand how a development environment is setup through Amazon is a tricky task. It required hours of scouring Google for answers, contacting Amazon MWS support and hours of waiting. Hopefully this post can be a cheat sheet for developers trying to learn Amazon’s system.

Step 1: Signup for a seller account on Amazon and select the Professional option. Go through the entire process and fill out you company name and address for your development account. You shouldn’t have to add a credit card or tax documentation even though it asks.

Step 2: Login to your newly created account and open up a help ticket. Explain what you are developing and the reasons you need a “staging account“. Amazon should respond with instructions and the new account you created should be a development account. It should have all the normal features of a real Amazon account except that you can’t sell on the real Amazon.com, only in ungated categories on the staging version of Amazon. Also request the staging URL and credentials for testing orders at the same time.

Step 3: After you’ve been informed by Amazon that Step 2 is complete, you can sign up with MWS as a developer. You should receive 5 things back:

Merchant ID Marketplace ID Developer Account # AWS Access Key ID Secret Key You will then be able to send your client(s) to the same signup page with your developer ID. You application will then use #2,4,5 for every single client while only replacing #1 for each client’s requests.

Step 4: Testing orders was one of the most unusual ways we have ever tested. It requires you to signin to: https://mt.amazon.com with the credentials you received in step 2. To test an order you must first list your products in your staging account. Then you must logout of your staging account, login to a real Amazon account and purchase items with a real account and credit card. For this reason Amazon suggests setting all pricing and shipping to $0.01.

Conclusion Hopefully this helps save some time for many of you as it took our team hours to compile and learn all of the information above from Google and Amazon MWS support.

Answer 2

You can get all inforamtion related to Amazon Sandbox account From Here

CreditCard is for verification only that you are not some milicious user.